Holy Smokes! Facebook Buys Instagram!

Honestly, we didn’t see it coming (and we’re still reeling from the news)—shocker because we’re online from our first spoonful of cereal flakes until that last sleepy move on Words with Friends.

So when our very own Digital Zookeeper Tiffany Jennings tweeted, then launched a poll yesterday morning about the pre-IPO Facebook making a land grab for Instagram for a cool $1 billion, we were in shock.

Instagram? The company who launched fewer than two years ago? And sluggishly released Instagram for Android, just last week?

Obviously it’s been a huge couple of weeks for the folks at Instagram.

“It’s important to be clear that Instagram is not going away. We’ll be working with Facebook to evolve Instagram and build the network. We’ll continue to add new features to the product and find new ways to create a better mobile photos experience.”